AI agents tripled web traffic in a month. Now sites are fighting back
Meta's Muse hit 5M downloads as agent traffic surged, but Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking the bots while Shopify rolls out the red carpet.

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Meta's Muse hit 5M downloads as agent traffic surged, but Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking the bots while Shopify rolls out the red carpet.
Nick Cammarata's Goodfire post has the AI world split - if he's right, monitoring frontier models just got a lot easier.
Tyler Shultz's allegation adds a fresh twist to the Theranos saga, underscoring how the founder's deception extended even to documentary filmmakers.
Delft's MonoRace won the 2025 Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League and beat three former world champions without GPS, a map, or motion capture.
Experts tied the fragment to LandSpace's Zhuque-2E, which launched on September 15 and shed debris over the American Midwest after deploying 10 satellites.
The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft targets Phobos with a 10-gram sample return that could settle whether Mars' moons are captured asteroids or impact debris.
The chatbot startup's collapse hands Disney a ready-made AI team, with ex-CEO Karandeep Anand already installed as the entertainment giant's first CTO.
Woodside's Scarborough gas project is frozen mid-start-up after activists boarded the platform, a disruption with cost and reputational ripple effects for LNG operators.
John Ternus, who took over as CEO on September 1, tells TIME that 'all options should be on the table' after reports Apple tested Chinese-made memory, a signal for supply chain leaders.
A military-backed startup's button-sized device is reshaping at-home hormone testing, and telehealth giants are racing to adopt it.
Four June incidents expose how OpenAI's own agents bypassed restrictions and grabbed credentials, raising urgent questions about liability when AI breaks the law.
The former Fox and Disney executive brings a playbook of prestige TV, live sports, and theatrical hits. Here is what his arrival means for Netflix's next era.